One of the many beautiful things about living in New York City is the ubiquity of, well, everything.

Need some fresh reindeer milk to go with the Kaluheenati rice pudding you’re whipping up? No problem. Want to get a Swedish massage from three Buddhists while they sing “Frosty the Snowman” a cappella? You can find a joint like that on Rivington.

But if you want to catch some live music and a plate of more-than-just-decent food, you may have to fugheddaboutit.

Jonathan Benno, Thomas Keller’s famously focused and innovative sous chef at Per Se, has sprouted his very own set of eagle wings, left the Keller nest and soared over to Lincoln Center–home of the most significant collection of musical performing arts institutions in America–to open a haute cafeteria designed to feed the crème de la crème of haute opera society. If Benno has his way, eating to the Lincoln Center beat will no longer be an on-the-fly affair–it will be a destination in and of itself.

Because after (or before) seeing Lewis Nash beat his post-bop drum or listening to the sonic experiments that explode from VOX’s zany opera lab, one may start to feel a bit peckish.

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Filmmaker David Lynch is now an official musician with the release of two songs “Good Day Today” and “I Know” via Radio 1 DJ Rob da Bank’s label, Sunday Best.

“I’ve always loved sounds and so I built a studio where I can experiment with sound, and gradually I started experimenting with music. I’m not a musician, but I love to experiment and try to make music,” he told the Guardian. That’s also where you’ll find his new songs.

The cult-favorite director has long dabbled in music, recently teaming up with Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse for the Dark Night of the Soul album. And of course there’s his collaboration with composer Angelo Badalamenti and singer Julee Cruise, subsequently producing the “Twin Peaks” theme song.

Artwork comes from designer Vaughan Oliver, who’s also done covers for the Pixies and Cocteau Twins. Numerous musicians in our archives have told us about their love for Lynch, including Moby.

P.J. Harvey will release her eighth full-length album, Let England Shake, on February 14 via Island Records. The Flood-produced album is the follow-up to 2007′s White Chalk, and Harvey appeared on the Andrew Marr show earlier this year to perform a song also titled “Let England Shake.”

Harvey has scheduled a short run of February shows in Europe, some of which are already sold out. No word yet on North American dates.

While we wait on further details, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond sounds off on collaborating with Flood, the producer behind Harvey, Sigur Ros and more.

Let England Shake tracklist:

01. Let England Shake
02. The Last Living Rose
03. The Glorious Land
04. The Words That Maketh Murder
05. All And Everyone
06. On Battleship Hill
07. England
08. In The Dark Places
09. Bitter Branches
10. Hanging In The Wire
11. Written On The Forehead
12. The Colour Of The Earth

Whenever stories of trips to the bowling alley or amusement park come up with friends, shrieks and puerile groans of disgust generally precede tales involving vomit, vicious in-fighting and bizarre displays of religious mania. Almost universally, these purveyors of organized amusement conjure a fulsome, stomach-wrenching buffet of traumatic memories from which Pepcid-popping Freud acolytes could dine for decades.

On outings to the alley, it seems every generation gets screwed in a unique but equally horrifying way. On one particularly memorable occasion, I watched my normally reticent mother shriek “Boo-yah!,” do a dramatic karate kick in the air, point at my father and shimmy her hips Chubby-Checker style after garnering a strike and beating him by one point in a tense two-hour match to the death.

My grandmother quietly fingered her rosary and shook her head sadly, and I concluded the day by barfing on my mom’s rented shoes. (Too many Ho-Hos). We haven’t been bowling as a family since.

But perhaps we should. It seems that the savants behind Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, BK) were raised in an alternate universe; a wonderful planet on which bowling alleys were created for, and successfully produce, this strange concept known as family fun.

Gone are the horrible tunes (instead, find DJ Uncle Mike and actual live, cool bands you’d normally have to stand in a cramped music hall to see), the insouciant disregard for the environment (it’s totally green, the world’s sole LEED certified bowling alley), and dreadful dining options (Blue Ribbon toques were brought in to consult on the food; make sure to hit the fabulously junkie, comforting oyster po’ boy, pigs in a blanket, sloppy joe and the gut-busting Mac and Cheese).

Gone are the crap drinks (the Bourbon Street Shake is made with bourbon and Nutella), the ego-busting air of failure and sad-sackery (any place that cards preening, female senior citizens is onto something).

Time for a re-match!

Tis the season of giving, and everyone from Paul McCartney to Kanye West is pitching in to increase awareness of worthy causes. And it’s easier than ever–you can upload a video, you can skip shaving, you can even be silent.

Most popular is columnist Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” video campaign, created after several LGBT teenagers committed suicide across the U.S. Despite the seemingly insurmountable troubles we face, there’s life–and a good one–after the challenging teenage years.

Many musicians have shared their own stories of coming out or their friend’s struggles with sexual identity, including Sia, Eve and Scissor Sisters. Since forming, the campaign reports a 50 percent increase of calls to the crisis intervention hotline, The Trevor Project.

Notice an increase of mustachioed friends lately? That’s because it’s Movember, an annual effort to increase prostate cancer awareness. Participants grow their mustaches, the furriest raising money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG. There’s also the Mustaches VS. Cancer campaign, benefitting pediatric cancer care and research.

Paul McCartney, Paul Weller and others recently contributed to “Art of the Song,” a U.K. campaign raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Their songwriting contributions will be auctioned in December. Even Kanye West is taking a little time from gazing in the mirror to donate artwork to Whatever It Takes, a non-profit that’s raised over $4 million for several charities.

So enough turkey talk–find a local opportunity near you.

Pixtape is our roundup of the best new downloads from the month of November. Enjoy!

1. Sybiann “Monsoon Breath”
The Italian band deliver a thoughtful, well-paced noise-rock song with plenty of twists to keep things interesting. They just need to crank the vocals up.
Download track via Eardrums

2. The Phantom’s Revenge “Charlie”
The French producer spells out feel-good in this disco gem from his new EP Charlie, perhaps inspired by a character from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (check the samples halfway through).
Download track via Chemical Jump

3. Young Galaxy “Peripheral Visionaries”
The Montreal duo employs a simple, perennial bass line and layered vocals toward the end for a hook that will get stuck in your head.
Download track via Gorilla vs Bear

4. Mogwai “Rano Piano”
From their upcoming album Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will (Sub Pop), the Scottish band piles on the distorted guitar and layers in a couple melodies for another promising release.
Download track via Stereogum

5. Jay Electronica featuring Jay-Z, The-Dream and Charlotte Gainsbourg “Shiny Suit Theory”
Not the highest quality from the recent Roc Nation signee so it’s probably not the album version, but worth it for lines like “fuck the underground, you need to win a Grammy.”
Download track via 2 Dope Boyz

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Songs created to honor the fleeting moments of careless youth turned one Canadian kid into a buzzworthy producer, and fast. Within weeks of posting his songs online, labels expressed interest and blogs began talking about the Vancouver-based Teen Daze.

The producer is considered part of the emotive chillwave crowd, but separates from the pack by maintaining the kind of energy intended for long nights out on the town, even if every moment isn’t action packed. In fact, it’s more about those reflective moments in between.

Less than a year ago some friends got together to celebrate the final days before turning 20 years old. To mark the passing of the teenage years, they did all the things teenagers do–loitering, trespassing, eating candy–and thus Teen Daze was born. The producer’s debut EP, Four More Years (Arcade Sound Ltd.) made listeners happy with wistful songs like “Saviour” and “Around,” plus he’s done remixes for Yeasayer and Local Natives.

Catch him on tour in December with stops along the West coast up to his hometown of Vancouver. There are plenty of nice things we could say about Teen Daze, but we’ll let the man speak for himself on everything from late night recording sessions to religion.